Officer engagement jeunes et plaidoyer SDSR

The Officer is responsible for developing and updating the advocacy strategy and action plan of the program, organizing training sessions for youth and leaders, facilitating intergenerational dialogues and advocacy meetings, supporting youth organizations in initiative formulation and accountability, and ensuring program visibility and adherence to protection principles. The role involves managing social resistance, coordinating with partners, and adapting interventions to security and seasonal constraints in the regions of Bougouni, Yanfolila, and Ségou.

Responsibilities

• Develop and update the advocacy strategy and action plan with timeline, institutional targets, and monitoring milestones
• Plan, organize and facilitate training sessions for youth and leaders, prepare modules, materials, participant lists, and reports
• Prepare and facilitate intergenerational dialogues, advocacy frameworks with influential leaders, and community advocacy meetings
• Support youth organizations in formulating initiatives, budgeting, and accountability for received support
• Draft position notes, arguments, memorandums, and press releases and ensure validation before dissemination
• Monitor commitments made by communities and leaders and follow up until formal decisions are obtained
• Establish and animate feedback and complaints mechanisms at community level and ensure treatment of received feedback
• Participate in organizing the national youth forum and represent the program in regional and national advocacy spaces
• Collect, verify and transmit activity data, feed the monitoring database, and contribute to monthly, quarterly, and annual reports
• Contribute to work plans and annual budgets and monitor activity execution under the post's responsibility
• Participate in quarterly monitoring and learning reviews, consultation days, and joint supervision missions
• Document best practices and lessons learned and contribute to SDSR Alliance capitalization products
• Ensure program result visibility with media and partners respecting communication and safeguarding rules
• Respect and promote protection, inclusion, and confidentiality principles in all activities
• Anticipate and manage social, community, or religious resistance to adolescent and youth SRHR messages and adapt approaches without renouncing objectives
• Manage institutional environment changes, elected officials rotation, and decision-making calendars
• Maintain advocacy credibility when commitments are not followed by action by objectifying findings and reactivating influence levers
• Arbitrate between youth organizations' expectations and program means and rules and explain decisions taken
• Manage tensions or misunderstandings between youth, community leaders, families, and authorities and prevent participant exposure to risk
• Harmonize approaches, tools, and calendars between implementation zones and partners to ensure comparable youth support
• Identify vulnerability or violence situations during activities, refer to competent services, and alert supervisor
• Adapt intervention schedules and modalities to security and seasonal constraints in Bougouni, Yanfolila, and Ségou and report logistical or operational difficulties

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required (implied by grade and professional level)
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience (implied by mid-level professional role)
• Experience in advocacy strategy development and implementation
• Experience in organizing and facilitating training sessions and dialogues
• Ability to prepare training modules, reports, and advocacy documents
• Experience in supporting youth organizations in budgeting and accountability
• Skills in monitoring commitments and follow-up with stakeholders
• Experience in managing feedback and complaints mechanisms at community level
• Ability to represent the program in regional and national advocacy spaces
• Experience in data collection, verification, and reporting
• Ability to contribute to work plans and budget follow-up
• Experience in documenting best practices and lessons learned
• Skills in media and partner communication respecting communication and safeguarding rules
• Ability to anticipate and manage social, community, or religious resistance to adolescent and youth SRHR messages
• Experience in working with changing institutional environments and decision-making calendars
• Skills in maintaining advocacy credibility and managing expectations and tensions among youth and community leaders
• Ability to identify vulnerability or violence situations and refer to competent services
• Capacity to adapt intervention schedules and modalities to security and seasonal constraints
• Fluency in French (implied by application language requirement)

Skills

• Advocacy Strategies
• Advocacy Implementation
• Training Session Facilitation
• Training Module Preparation
• Report Writing
• Budgeting Support
• Accountability Support
• Monitoring Commitments
• Stakeholder Follow-up
• Feedback Mechanisms
• Complaints Mechanism Management
• Program Representation
• Data Collection
• Data Verification
• Data Reporting
• Work Plan Contribution
• Budget follow-up
• Good Practices Documentation
• Lessons Learned Documentation
• Media Communications
• Partner Communication
• Communication Safeguarding
• Social Resistance Management
• Community Resistance Management
• Religious Resistance Management
• Intergenerational Dialogue Facilitation
• Youth Organization Support
• Vulnerability Identification
• Referral to Services
• Intervention Adaptation
• Security Constraint Management
• Seasonal Constraint Management

Languages

French